Child Rights
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This is what happens to child migrants found alone at the border, from the moment they cross into the US until age 18
As of June 30, 2021, with three months remaining in the U.S. government’s fiscal year, 95,079 children left their countries…
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Federal Government faces criticism after telling UN raising the age is the duty of states and territories
Currently, children as young as 10-years-old can be held criminally responsible and face incarceration in Australia. This is four years…
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MEPs condemn Poland’s near-total abortion ban
MEPs on Tuesday condemned Poland’s almost total ban on abortion and called on the European Union to step up its fight against…
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‘Politics aside, we’ve abandoned children in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’
I have witnessed a lot in my career, heading up humanitarian responses in the world’s most violent, dangerous, and impoverished…
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Dozens of submissions made pubic after AGS refuse to act on rising the age of criminal responsibility
The step follows two-and-a-half years of inaction and delay by federal and state Attorneys-General, who have so far failed to…
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US Supreme Court to hear major abortion case with ramifications for Roe vs Wade
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case with massive implications for the country’s abortion laws, setting up…
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Middle East/North Africa: End Violent Punishment of Children
(Beirut) – Governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should outlaw the violent discipline of children, Human Rights…
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France sets age of consent at 15
The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a bill defining as rape any act of sexual penetration between an…
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Report due on ‘failings’ for fatal family
NSW Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan is due to release her findings and recommendations on Wednesday into the deaths of Jack and…
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Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations
Our thoughts are with the Stolen Generations, the men and women in our program and everyone affected by the past…
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Family of girl, 12, forced to marry abductor condemn Pakistan authorities
The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six…
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Asylum seeker rights ‘under attack’ at Europe’s borders, UN warns
The UN voiced alarm at increasingly frequent pushbacks and expulsions of refugees at Europe’s borders, warning that the very idea…
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‘Hear me now’: Australian of the Year Grace Tame’s speech in full
She told ABC’s News Breakfast she could feel the atmosphere in the room. ABC “And the feeling was reconnection, the…
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Irish prime minister to make formal apology over deaths of 9,000 children at Catholic-run care homes
The report, which covered 18 so-called Mother and Baby Homes where young pregnant women were hidden from society for decades,…
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Young children are intuitive urban planners — we would all benefit from living in their ‘care-full’ cities
And yet, important voices are missing from urban planning debates — the voices of those who will one day inherit…
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Fear of child removal preventing Indigenous women from reporting family violence
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are not reporting family violence for fear of having children removed, according to new…
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